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Asharq Al-Awsat
4 days ago
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
OIC Chief Offers Condolences to Iraq Following Deadly Fire in Kut City
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha extended his sincere condolences and sympathy to the leadership and people of Iraq over the victims of the tragic fire at a commercial center in Kut City, Wasit Governorate, causing numerous deaths and injuries, SPA reported. He also expressed solidarity with the families of the victims and the injured.
Al Bawaba
7 days ago
- Politics
- Al Bawaba
Iraq: 50 people killed in fire at hypermarket mall in Kut city
ALBAWABA - At least 50 people were killed after a fire broke out in a shopping center in the city of Kut, south of Baghdad, Iraqi media reported on Thursday morning. Earlier, the Wasit Governorate Police Command announced a full mobilization of civil defense teams to extinguish the blaze that erupted at the Corniche hypermarket mall. According to the media, the city's Governor Mohammed Al-Mayahi supervised the rescue of trapped citizens himself, while firefighters worked to put out the fire. Fire at the hypermarket mall in Kut city in Iraq. (X) In a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the police department said: "There are ongoing efforts and a full mobilization of civil defense teams. With the participation of all security and service formations in the governorate, operations to extinguish the fire that broke out at the Corniche Hypermarket Mall in the center of Kut are continuing." For its part, the Wasit Governorate Office stated in a statement that "Civil Defense was able to reach citizens trapped at the top of the building that was engulfed in flames in the center of Kut," noting that "the Governor of Wasit is supervising the rescue of citizens trapped inside the hypermarket mall building that suffered the fire." A video was posted online showing a huge blaze eating the building while firefighters were trying to stop it.
